On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Dave F. <dave...@madasafish.com> wrote: > On 08/08/2012 16:41, Pieren wrote: >> >> The relation would say "these 4 tracks belong to the same railway". > > I still don't see the point/benefit of this.
>From a cartographic point of view this could greatly ease the ability to simplify/generalize the network for smaller scales where it only makes sense to draw the tracks as a single line. It can be difficult, or at least computationally expensive, to associate parallel lines with each other without some kind of helpful clue like a relation. -- AJ Ashton _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging